Guide-Dogs Must Also Watch

Besides helping blind people reach some place guide-dogs must also watch that their masters do not stumble, run against something or fall down.

These dogs help their blind masters cross highways and tram-lines, walk around benches and borders; they also help people get into public transport.

Dog trainers say that when a guide-dog follows an unknown route the animal is not supposed to deviate from the straight road and make no turns without any command from the master. Such dogs must be incredibly patient and enduring.

It is known that dogs cannot discern colors and thus they do not see the colors of traffic lights. But a guide-dog will never let the master walk in case a car is too close.

Dogs enjoy really good lives at the Republican School for Training Guide-Dogs: they are fed with high quality expensive dog food. Food and maintenance costs about $300 a month there, a really high sum even for common Russians.